Slicing machine



July 17, 1928.

l.1. FOLK SLICING. MACHINE Filed Jan. 29, 1926 JOSEPH FOLK, OF LA PORTE,INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO U. S. SLICING MACHINE COM- PANY, OF LA PORTE,INDIANA, .A` CORPORATION OF INDIANA.

sLIciNG MACHINE.

Application led January 29, 1926. Serial No. 84,591.

This invention relates to machines f or slicing meat or othercommodities and'its object is to provide a device .for receiving scrapswhich fall from the slicing knife and to so relate said receiving deviceto the other parts of the machine that it will be easily accessible forremoval and will not interfere with surrounding objects. The invention1s in the nature of an improvement on the device shown in Patent No.1,314,560, granted September 2, 1919, to J. C. Woodington.

The invention is exemplified inthe combination and arrangement of partsshown in the accompanying drawing and described in the :followingspecification, and it is more particularly pointed out in the appendedclaims.

In the drawing- Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing a portion of aslicing machine having one einbodiment of the present invention appliedthereto;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary vertical section substantially on the cuttingplane of the slicing knife and shows the scrap pan in longitudinalsection;

Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the scrapv pan and a portion of theslicing knife.

In the drawing, the numeral 10 designates the frame of the slicingmachine having a Vtable 11 mounted for reciprocation thereon and havinga rotary slicing knife 12 for severing slices carried by the table 11.The knife 12 is journalled on a pedestal 13 arranged at one side ofthepath of the reci rocating table 11. It will be noted that t e 'knife 12projects below the table 11 and small particles of meat or othermaterial being sliced are frequentl carried down and discharged from thekni e at the lower portion thereof. These particles lodge between theedge of the base 10 and the su port 13 at a point not easily accessible.i crap receiving trays or pans have been previously provided, but suchtrays are in the form of a slide arranged to be drawn outwardly 'at therear of the slicing machine, that is, at. the side of the knife oppositethe cutting portion and opposite the slice receiving plate.

Tt is customary in slicing machines to provide a shield, at the frontside of the knife supporting pedestal, and where the scrap pan isinserted from the rear care must be taken in inserting the scrap pan tomove it forwardly to an exact position so that no space is left formaterial to enter between the front edge of the scrap pan and the rearface of the shield. A greater inconvenience of this form ofconstruction, however, is due to the fact that the pan must be'withdrawn at the rear of the slicing machine when itis to be emptied.This is of great inconvenience especially when the slicing machine isplaced upon a counter having a glass front. On such a counter, the rearof the machine must be arrangedadjacent the glass front so that thescrap pan is made inaccessible and can only be removed by shifting theposition of the slicing machine. The position of the scrap pan with thehandle at the rear also makes it invisible to the operator so that it isliable to be overlooked, and not regularly emptied.

In the present invention, the shield shown at 14 in the drawing has itsinner ed e, adjacent the knife 12, substantially straivht and does notproject inwardly to cover the space 15 at the front of and below theknife 12. The scrap pan 16 is slidably mounted in the space between thepedestal 13 and the base 10 but is arranged to slide forwardly over theslice receiving table 17 instead of rearwardly. The forward lend of thepan 16 carries a plate 18 which covers the space 15 when the pan is slidto its innermost position. The plate 18 has a forwardly projectingportion 19, the upper edge of which extends to a position adjacent thelower edge of the knife 12 as shown in Fig. 2. The rear end ofthe pan 16is provided with a notch or slotV 20 which permits the pan to be movedin and out o f position although the sides of thefpan project above thelower edge of the kni e 12. A liner or guide 21 receives the pan 16 andis provided with an overhanging ledge 22 for guiding particles into thepan 16. A guard plate 23 is hinged to the inner edge of the shield 14Cand is normali swung inwardly against the side of the kni e 1-2. Thelower end of the guard late 23 is provided with an extension 24 w ichcloses against the edge of the plate 18 and rojects beyond the edge ofthe knife 12 or that portion of the knife below the table l1. The guardplate 23 may be swung outwardly to permit cleaning of the knife and thescrap pan 16 is withdrawn by sliding it forwardly from its recess. Itwill be seen thatin this forward movement the-tray moves over the slicereceiving plate 17 so that if any scraps fall from the pan they will beintercepted by the plate I7 and will not fall into inaccessiblepositions or upon the floor.

I claim:-

1. The combination with a slicing machine having a rotary slicing knifeand a reciprocating table for moving material toward the cutting side ofsaid knife, of a scrap pan disposed beneath said knife, said pan beingremovable at the side of said knife adjacent the cutting.,r sidethereof.

2. The combination with a slicinof machine havingc a rotary slicing'knife and a rec1procating table for presentingr material to said knifeto be sliced, of a scrap pan slidable into and out yof position beneathsaid knife, said pan being removable from said position by forwardmovement thereof toward the cutting side of said knife` and means onsaid pan to limit rearward movement thereof to prevent removal of saidpan rearwardly.

3. The combination with a circular slicing knife, of a scrap pandisposed beneath said knife, said pan having the sides thereofoverlapping the sidesiof said knife and having a notch in the rear endthereof to permit said pan to be slid forwardly out of operatingposition beneath said knife.

et. In a slicing machine, a rotary circular slicing knife, areciprocatingtable for pren senting material to said knife, a plate forreceiving slices, and a scrap pan disposed beneath said knife, saidscrap pan being slid from beneath said knife by movement thereof oversaid slice receiving plate.

5. In combination, a slicing machine havu ing a supporting frame, apedestal spaced from said frame, a knife mounted on said pedestal, ascrap pan disposed beneath said knife between said. frame and pedestal,and a shield the front side of said pedestal.,

Lerma? said scrap pan having a plate at the forward end thereof arrangedto register with said shield when said scrap pan is in posiu tionbeneath said knife.

6. A slicing machine comprising a frame, a pedestal spaced from saidframe, a rotary circular knife journalled on said pedestal, areciprocating table mounted on said frame for presentingmaterial to saidknife tobe sliced, and a scrap pan disposed'between said frame andpedestal, beneath said knife, said scrap pan'being provided with a frontplate having the upper edge thereof disposed adjacent the edge of saidknife.

7. A slicingn machine comprising a. frame, a pedestal spaced from saidframe, a circular slicing knife journalled on said pedestal, a shieldsecured to the front side of said pedestal, a scrap pan disposed betweensaid pedestal and frame, beneath said knife, said scrap pan having afront plate, the lower portion of which registers with said shield whilethe upper portion is inclined outwardly, and a guard plate hinged tosaid shield and disposed adjacent the outer edge of the outwardlyinclined portion of the front plate of 'said scrap pana 8. A.slicingmachine comprising a frame, a pedestal spaced fromv said frame, alnnife j'ournalled on said pedestal, a scrap pan disposed between saidframe and pedestal, be neath said tknife, a reciprocating table mounted.on said frame, and a slice receivin plate disposed beneath said table atthe for-l January, "`i i926.

JSEPH FLK.

